Today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire covers the new version of a popular practice management application (see article below), the new version of a popular legal illustration application, and anti-spyware software that takes a unique "definition-less" approach. Don't miss the next issue.
Organize Your Practice from Top to Bottom Line
By Taeho Lim
It's uncanny how many offline problems make their way into our computers. For example, in the real world we lose and sometimes find personal items. Similarly, we often create files on our computers only to lose them. There is one advantage though — you don't need to hunt around with a flashlight to find missing files.
Instead, you can use search technology such as that in Software Technology's PracticeMaster Premier Version 14.2, the new version of its popular practice management software. PracticeMaster Premier's new Document Search tool goes far beyond generic search tools. You can limit your searches to specific clients and matters as well as other parameters such as date range. You can also search phonetically, which will pick up commonly misspelled words, homonyms, etc. You can search the content of any document in a client's file, including documents stored in iManage and Worldox. You can also search your email and email attachments. This same technology now also exists in the Conflict of Interest Search tool.
Another major new feature of PracticeMaster Premier is its enhanced integrated email. For example, you can easily convert an email message into a fee record. You can also apply an unlimited number of signatures to your outgoing email. If you want to continue using Outlook or another email program, but want access to your email by client and matter within PracticeMaster Premier, you can now do that thanks to a new configuration option.
Software Technology has also focused on ease of use in this release. The new Application Toolbar gives you one click access to PracticeMaster Premier and any other Software Technology products that you use such as Tabs3. The new Quick Clicks pane gives you one click access to your most frequently used functions in PracticeMaster Premier — Sorting, Filtering, Column Layouts, Convert to Fee, etc. You can have Quick Clicks hide and appear automatically based on your mouse cursor location. Also new, the PracticeMaster Toolbar for Internet Explorer enables you to easily capture your research and store it in PracticeMaster Premier, including a link back to the Web page.
PraticeMaster has a number of other notable enhancements, including easier to use Convert to Fee settings, one click conversion of calendar events into fee records, improved list preferences that make it easier to review contacts, email, and other information presented in a list, improved import filters for Outlook, Groupwise, AbacusLaw, Amicus Attorney, and Time Matters, a new document assembly toolbar for Microsoft Word, and of course Windows Vista compatibility. PracticeMaster Premier costs $295 for the first user license plus $150 for each additional user. Learn more about PracticeMaster Premier Version 14.2.
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